Sales & Earnings

While the stock prices of a few biotech companies have advanced significantly as a result of their pandemic efforts, a broad biotech stock index has underperformed the pharmaceutical index. Why?

There is momentum for Glenmark’s Ryaltris across new launch markets internationally, with FY2023 and FY2024 seen as important years for revenue scale-up. A partnered nitric oxide nasal spray for COVID-19 faces trial recruitment challenges in India but the firm hopes to be able to debut the product this year.

Strides’ CEO tells Scrip Merck’s molnupiravir and Pfizer’s Paxlovid are not seen impacting COVID-19 vaccine uptake as boosters and immunization for travel will drive continued demand. The Indian company expects to book Sputnik Light sales from Q4. Meanwhile, US revenue guidance of $225-250m has been pushed back by a year to FY23.

AstraZeneca’s controversial switch to for-profit COVID-19 vaccine pricing and the costs of the Alexion acquisition clouded its strength in oncology. Meanwhile, Clovis's tight grip on its marketing purse strings may have hit revenue recovery.

Challenging phase for Alembic as continued price erosion in the US hurts earnings, while a compliance re-inspection by the FDA at an injectables site results in 10 observations. Investors believe US sales may have bottomed out at current levels but can the Indian firm bounce back quickly?

AstraZeneca is one of the sector’s top growth stories in 2021, but controversies around its COVID-19 vaccine continue to grab headlines, and Chinese price cuts bite.

Aurobindo will formalize a succession plan in early December as managing director N Govindarajan, who has spent over a decade at the company, is set to move on. Meanwhile, though a settlement has been reached for generic Revlimid launch plans, development of a COVID-19 vaccine with partner Vaxxinity has hit a major roadblock

The pandemic has dampened the seizure drug’s sales, but the company is hoping to see a pickup as an expanding patient base could help it achieve anticipated blockbuster sales.

The German group's efforts in helping its peers in the industry with their respective COVID-19 vaccines have been rewarded with strong revenue growth while its own newer drugs beat analyst forecasts.

The biotech also provided an update on its pursuit of approval for adagrasib, a KRAS G12C inhibitor that is likely to compete against Amgen’s first-to-market Lumakras.

The menopause drug elinzanetant, which has just gone into Phase III, has joined Kerendia, Verquvo and Nubeqa as a candidate that Bayer believes has a peak sales potential of more than €1bn.

Pfizer’s pandemic-related windfalls might be prompting some investors and analysts to try steering the resulting largesse towards their own favored acquisition candidates.